Ghent University Histories and Theories of Reading

Doing Academia Differently: In Conversation with Neuroatypicality

Hosted by

Dr. Vivienne Bozalek, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Dr. Candace Kuby, University of Missouri, Usa
Dr. Geert Van Hove, Ghent University, Belgium

This gratis webinar series, with x total sessions, meets monthly on the topic of doing academia differently through conversations with neuroatypicality. Each session involves one or two international guests who have had some experience with neuroatypicality in the context of higher pedagogy.

Content

Each panelist will hash out the post-obit:

What does neuroatypicality hateful for higher didactics?
How might higher didactics be differently configured from the viewpoint of neuroatypicality?
What does neuroatypicality have to offer higher education politically, ethically, ontologically and epistemologically (politico-ethico-onto-epistemologically)?
How might neuroatypicality as an alternative political leader-ethico-onto-epistemology intersect with decolonial and postcolonial debates in higher education?

Invited guest speakers will discuss their experiences of neuroatypicality in higher educational activity and call back about how to do academia differently through these experiences. The speakers locate themselves in a diversity of philosophical and theoretical approaches which underpin their practices and experiences with neuroatypicality in higher didactics. The invited panelists also advise several readings for webinar attendees to read prior to the webinar, although this is non a prerequisite for participating in the webinar series (see listing of readings).

Webinars

Webinars are on the third Thursday of the month (unless otherwise noted)
1 ½ hour duration with hosts interviewing the panelist(due south) then time for questions from attendees
Zoom links will be added throughout the year

We invite faculty members, activists involved with neuroatypicality and mad studies and students to join this online learning space. Our goal is to record and make publicly available the webinars with permission from panelists. Please meet detailed information below.

Previously recorded webinars

You can access past recordings on the Doing Academia Differently: In chat with Neuroatypicality youtube aqueduct.

Partnership

This webinar series is made possible by a Tri-Continental (3C) Partnership which is a trilateral understanding between the University of Missouri, the University of the Western Cape, and Ghent University. The Tri-Continental (3C) Partnership ready a fund to promote partnership betwixt these three institutions during a fourth dimension of travel restrictions due to the global pandemic. The funds were provided to back up virtual inquiry and teaching collaborations betwixt faculty members at the three institutions. We are grateful for our universities' long-time collaboration and support of this webinar series.

Contact

If you lot have questions about the webinar series, accessing the Zoom webinar link, and/or need assistance in accessing the suggested readings, please email Nike Romano at romanon@cput.air conditioning.za.

Invited Speakers and Suggested Readings

October 14, 2021 • Erin Manning

8:thirty am Key Standard Time in the U.S., iii:xxx pm Central European Standard Time, iv:30 pm Cape Town, SA time zones

Research Chair, Speculative Pragmatism, Art, and Pedagogy; Managing director, Interdisciplinary PhD in the Humanities & Kinesthesia of Fine Arts; and Director, SenseLab at Concordia University

Erin Manning studies in the interstices of philosophy, aesthetics and politics, concerned, always, about alter-pedagogical and modify-economical practices. 3e is the direction her current research takes – an exploration of the transversality of the iii ecologies, the social, the ecology and the conceptual. An iteration of 3e is a land-based projection due north of Montreal where living and learning is explored. Legacies of SenseLab infuse the project, especially the question of how collectivity is crafted in a more than-than human being encounter with worlds in the making.

Zoom webinar link: https://umsystem.zoom.u.s./j/91070988788 Passcode: 068997

Suggested reading: Manning, East. 2020. For a Pragmatics of the Useless. Durham & London: Duke University Press.

Nov 18, 2021 • Peter Smagorinsky

viii:30 am Central Standard Fourth dimension in the U.S., 3:xxx pm Central European Standard Time, four:xxx pm Cape Town, SA time zones

Distinguished Inquiry Professor at The Academy of Georgia, emeritus; and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Peter'south interest in neurodiversity began with his recognition that he and family members are on the autism spectrum, forth with other neuro-atypical conditions. His interest in neurodiversity has produced a number of articles and chapters, and two recent edited collections:Creativity and Customs among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Functioning from Palgrave Macmillan; and, coedited with Joe Tobin and Kyunghwa Lee, Dismantling the Disabling Environments of Didactics: Creating New Cultures and Contexts for Accommodating Difference from Peter Lang.

Zoom webinar link: https://umsystem.zoom.usa/j/95241268920

December sixteen • Elisabeth De Schauwer & Leni van Goidsenhoven

eight:30 am Central Standard Time in the U.Southward., iii:30 pm Cardinal European Standard Time, 4:thirty pm Greatcoat Town, SA time zones

Leni Van Goidsenhoven obtained her PhD in Cultural and Literary Studies. As a postdoctoral researcher she works at the Philosophy department of Antwerp University, where she is involved in the interdisciplinary ERC project NeuroEpigenEthics. In her thinking and writing she always makes utilise of poststructuralist and new materialist frameworks, crip theory and literary theory. She has a special interest in reconceptualizing vocalism, the importance of imagination in inquiry, accessibility in the fine art world, and working with the 'not-yet known'.

Elisabeth De Schauwer (PhD) is one of the driving forces of the Inability Studies researcher'south collective at Ghent University and works as a invitee professor in the faculty of Educational Sciences. Her research now focuses on intra-actions with difference in (pedagogical) relations. Her teaching circles always around working with diversity and struggling with inclusion. She is thinking and writing with poststructuralist and new materialist frameworks.
For Leni and Elisabeth, activism, research and education get hand in paw.

Zoom Webinar Link: https://umsystem.zoom.u.s./j/92919970845 Passcode: 464611

January xx, 2022 • Geoffrey Reaume

8:30 am Central Standard Time in the U.Southward., 3:30 pm Central European Standard Time, 4:thirty pm Greatcoat Town, SA fourth dimension zones

Associate Professor in Critical Inability Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada

Geoffrey Reaume earned his PhD in History (1997) at the Academy of Toronto and his work was published as a book, "Remembrance of Patients By: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940" (OUP, 2000). His study was made into a play performed by psychiatric survivors in Toronto from 1998-2000. Reaume is a co-editor with Brenda LeFrancois and Robert Menzies of "Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies" (CSPI, 2013). He created the showtime university credit class in Mad People's History which he has been teaching since 2000.

Zoom webinar link: https://umsystem.zoom.us/j/95900748850

February 17, 2022 • Geert Van Hove

8:thirty am Cardinal Standard Time in the U.S., 3:xxx pm Central European Standard Time, 4:30 pm Cape Boondocks, SA time zones

Professor of Disability Studies, Ghent Academy

I love basketball game and jazz and enjoy being with my vi children/stepchildren and our 7 grandchildren. At Ghent University I am a member research group of great colleagues all trying to sympathize how to alive with diversity in families, schools, working places, Higher Education. Together with Bachelor, Master and PhD students nosotros also play a lot within the bully prairie called 'enquiry'.

Zoom webinar link: https://umsystem.zoom.us/j/98143224103

March 17, 2022 • Tanya Titchkosky

8:30 am Central Standard Time in the U.S., 3:thirty pm Central European Standard Fourth dimension, 4:30 pm Cape Town, SA time zones

Professor in Social Justice Education at OISE at the Academy of Toronto

Dr. Tanya Titchkosky is Professor in Social Justice Education at OISE at the University of Toronto, teaching and writing in the area of disability studies for more than than twenty years. Some of her books include Disability, Self, and Society (2003), every bit well as, Reading and Writing Disability Differently (2007) and The Question of Admission: Disability, Space, Meaning (2011). Tanya works from the position that whatsoever else disability is, it is tied upward with the human imagination steeped in more often than not unexamined conceptions of "normalcy." This disability studies research and teaching orientation, relies on other critical approaches to inquiry that question the grounds of Western ways of knowing, such equally phenomenology influenced by Black, Queer, and Ethnic Studies. Past grappling with the human action of interpretation, Tanya hopes to reveal the restricted imaginaries that surround our lives in and with disability. With co-editors, she has a new reader coming out in 2022 titled DisAppearing: Encounters in Disability Studies.

Zoom webinar link: https://umsystem.zoom.us/j/99919816563

May nineteen, 2022 • Karen Lazar and Denise Newfield

8:30 am Central Standard Time in the U.S., iii:30 pm Key European Standard Time, 4:30 pm Cape Town, SA time zones

The presentation today is by poet, scholar and teacher, Karen Lazar, facilitated by her Colleague, Denise Newfield. Karen has recently published a highly acclaimed poetry collection, Echoes, which provides a brilliant, critical portrayal of her 'neuro-atypicality'. Poems from this drove will grade the cadre of the presentation, leading to a discussion of the underlying principles and questions of this series.

Dr. Karen Lazar is a writing bus, disability activist, and lecturer in English and Professional person Literacies at several actual and virtual tertiary campuses. She was educated at Wits University in Johannesburg, BA to PhD in English, and lives in Johannesburg. Her PhD and some of her academic writing are feminist studies of the work of Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. Since her life-altering stroke in 2001, Karen has written in the field of medical humanities, through which she endeavors to capture, as a privileged stroke survivor who has not lost language, the voices and perceptions of disabled people who may otherwise non exist seen or heard. Karen is the author of two collections of hybrid prose-poems that offer the world from a seated and off-centre view.

Denise Newfield is a retired professor of English language and Instruction at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where she worked for many years in preservice and graduate teacher pedagogy. She holds a PhD from the University of London entitled 'Transmodal semiosis in classrooms: Case Studies from South Africa'. She remains research-agile in a range of cut-border educational projects and supervises graduate theses that concern educational change. Her research interests and publications pertain to the fields of literature and literacy education, multimodality, multiliteracies, posthumanism, postphilosophies, curricular, pedagogic and research transformation, decolonization and neuro-atypicality. She was principal investigator of a poetry inquiry project in the field of indigenous knowledge systems. She is interested in how insights from neuro-atypicality can aid united states of america in doing academia differently. Contempo publications include: 'A Thebuwa hauntology, then and now: Reconceptualising literacy practices' (with V. Bozalek); 'Thebuwa and a teaching of social justice: diffracting multimodality through posthumanism', and 'Touching matters: Affective entanglements in coronatime' (with Bozalek at al).

Zoom webinar link: https://umsystem.zoom.us/j/97165233220